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Marizka Coetzer The mid-month data indicates that petrol was set for an increase of 87 cents a litre, diesel 58 cents, and illuminating paraffin 56 cents. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on Thursday issued a statement preventing anyone from purchasing and/or dispensing petrol or diesel into a container. Photo for illustration: iStock A double dose of bad news for South Africa with new petrol regulations and a steep petrol increase on...

By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 9, 2021 TOKYO — Former Stars and Stripes journalist Grant Okubo remembers being on the phone with a colleague at Misawa Air Base when bottles started shaking in his home near Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. “It was the longest earthquake I’d ever experienced, but it was the same as a few others,” said Okubo, who was an Army sergeant and photographer for the paper when the quake hit March 11, 2011. “I wasn’t completely shocked.” But the ground kept shaking, those wine and liquor bottles fell off his refrigerator and then...